Example sentences of "[adj] as [pron] [verb] [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the prospect of reconciliation between the king and the archbishop grew , it did so because on the one hand the papal ruling on royal taxation of the clergy had been relaxed , while on the other the king 's relations with his leading magnates were now rapidly deteriorating as he sought to raise and pay for an expeditionary force to Flanders . |
| 2 | I sang , pondering whether my thanks were as spontaneous as I had thought or whether I was just too scared to complain . |
| 3 | In the summer we can go out and draw from direct observation , but in winter it is too cold , but when we get back to the classroom we can draw from memory the tree we have just examined and put down on paper as much as we have learned and remembered about the tree , its form , its colour , and its texture . |
| 4 | It is further urged upon me that the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact with each other , and the justices being satisfied that there were grounds for believing that both the children were likely to suffer significant harm , which was a specific finding that they made , they were plainly wrong in refusing to make an interim order in that they first of all failed to have regard to the fact that the parents had colluded over the cause of D. 's injuries , and there was evidence to that effect ; secondly , that the mother had lied to social services , Dr. Barnardo 's and the guardian about having had at the relevant times no contact with the father — and that is indeed what the mother has done , she has lied ; and , thirdly , that the father had been in breach of a term of the bail conditions which had been imposed upon him , not only on 23 December 1991 but ever since his release in as much as he had visited and contacted the mother . |
| 5 | When you were an adolescent in Sydney , Australia , in the '50s , kissing was as much as you hoped to achieve and even that was difficult . |
| 6 | The girl was not only twice as pretty as she had remembered but graceful and vivacious with the most beautiful smile . |
| 7 | He 'll turn up with a three course meal for as many as you care to name and serve it in the comfort of your semi . |
| 8 | Critical thinking is , however , essentially negative as it seeks to dissect and not to build . |
| 9 | Hence , learning takes just as long as it takes to present and record the examples . |
| 10 | You 're fine , as long as you stick to caution and sincerity . |
| 11 | This stops them working loose as yours have done and subsequently ruining the engine . ? |